[Wolves] OpenOffice File

[Mo Awkati]

Thanks for the info. it seems that OOo is like this. I
don't want to force it to become a clone of MS Word,
perhaps I am being a bit of a puritan. I thought there
would just be OOo file to click on and it opens the
doc; I can do that from within OOo Writer no problems.
Perhaps its my mind set is still with MS and expecting
things to look like what I have used before?? I don't
want to go back!! :-)

many thanks

Mo
 


 --- Ron Wellsted <ron at wellsted.org.uk> wrote: > On
Tue, 2004-02-03 at 19:49, Mo Awkati wrote:
> > Help!! When I save openoffice text files and try
> to
> > open them in konqueror (in file manager mode) the
> text
> > files are saved in a funny format. They are saved
> with
> > a file extention of .sxw. When I try to open one
> of
> > these files I get loads of others. How can I get
> it to
> > save a normal doc?
> > 
> > I have checked OOo website and nothing mentioned
> > there.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Mo
> 
> If you want to force OOo to save as m$word etc, try
> this.
> This will work in OOo 1.1, click on the menu item
> Tools -> Options.
> Click on the + next to Load/Save, then click on
> General.
> Under "Standard File Format" select "Text Document"
> then change the
> "Always save as" combo box from OpenOffice.org to
> Microsoft Word
> 97/2000/XP.  Repeat as required for Spreadsheet etc.
> 
> To associate Konqueror, click on the menu item
> Settings, then Configure
> Konqueror.  Click on "File Associations", then under
> Known types, click
> on the + beside the word "application"  If there is
> not a type of
> "msword" listed, click on the Add... button and add
> it. in the group
> application.
> Check a suitable icon is selected, the filename
> patterns should be *.doc
> and *.dot, the description should be Microsoft Word
> Document and the
> top/only item in the Application Preference order
> should be
> OpenOffice.org Writer.
> 
> HTH
> 
> -- 
> Ron Wellsted
> http://www.wellsted.org.uk
> ron at wellsted.org.uk
> N 52.567623, W 2.137621
> 
> 
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